Interview & Giveaway with Debbie Gould

Books-n-Kisses is pleased to have the wonderful Debbie Gould on the blog today to talk about her up coming 1 Night Stand release.

1.Can you please share with us a little about yourself

Debbie: Let’s see, I work full time as a nurse at a rural family practice in Vermont. I have 3 children. My daughter, the oldest, is in the Air Force, the middle son works for the family Water Well Drilling business, and the youngest is in college.

2.Have you always wanted to be an author?

Debbie: Nope, lol. Not until about ten years ago. I am an avid reader. Started out with Stephen King as a teenager and moved to romantic suspense as I got older. I finally started hearing all these characters in my head wanting a story for themselves.

3.Who are some of your favorite writers? Who do you feel has influenced your writing?

Debbie: Well, like I said, I cut my teeth on Stephen King and Koontz. Still love them. Most recently, Lori Foster, Cindy Gerard, Suzanne Brockmann(I want to be like her when I grow up) lol, Catherine Mann. Gosh I could go on and on.

4.How did you get into writing in this specific genre? Have you ever thought about writing in a different genre?

Debbie: I love romantic suspense and that is really where my heart lies, but this story is more contemporary. I have a writing partner with some other novels, L.J. Garland, and we are writing all kinds of different sub genres within the romance spectrum. It’s been fun.

5.What are some of your writing rituals?

Debbie: I really don’t have any. I used to be a punster, and just write without knowing where I was going, but L.J. has taught me the fine art of outlining. Even though we may stray, I find it keeps me much more focused.

6.Can you please tell us about your latest book(s)?

Debbie: Second Chance. is a story about getting past your self perceived failures. The hero is an Air Force Special Ops Officer who lost his wife in childbirth while he was on an op. For two years he’s lived on the guilt he feels for not being there for her. The baby is being cared for and loved by his wife’s sister, Emily. He financially supports them, but has emotionally distanced himself.

Emily has grown to love Colin and with the help of one of Colin’s teammates, together they set up the one night stand where she hopes to show him he can still have the family he thought he lost. It’s an emotional story of forgiving yourself and allowing yourself to take that second chance.

7.How did you come with the idea for this story?

Debbie: I’d heard about the 1 Night Stand series and wanted to do a story for it. You’ll see a lot of the military theme in my stories because of my daughter. She and her friends inspire me everyday. The sacrifices they make take their toll though and I think those stories need to be told.

8.Can you share with us your current work(s) in progress?

Debiie: Well L.J Garland and I are actually working on Colin’s teammate’s story at the moment. We also have a romantic suspense coming out in April form Decadent Publishing.

9.What would you be if you were not an author?

Debbie: Since I’m a nurse, I guess that’s your answer, although I do believe I was supposed to be born a Billionaire so I could just sit on the beach and write all day, but that didn’t happen, lol.

10.What is in your To Read Pile that you are dying to start or upcoming release you can’t wait for?

Debbie: I can’t wait for Sins of the Mind to be release in April. I’m dying to get the reactions. It’s a bit of a dark book. If anyone has read my Infidelity, I do believe this one is darker, lol. As for my TBR pile? It’s huge and mostly compiled of other 1 Night Stand stories from Decadent.

11.Is there anything else you would like to add?

Debbie: Thank you so much for having me and I’ll be giving away a copy of Second Chance to one lucky commenter so don’t forget to leave an email addy.

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Yes, we are planning on doing a series with Colin's team. I wrote the original, but my writing partner and I are doing the rest of the guys…hmmm that didn't sound right, lol. They are Air Force Pararescuemen and so darn hot, lol.

I love reading Romantic Suspense. Just love the added action and adrenalin rush of being in peril and a nice hunky guy to share it with, lol. That is also where my heart lies with writing, but I have ventured of into paranormal and contemprary as well.

T_T I haven't read anything by Stephen King and it's one of her favorite authors…I'm completely in need of some dose of the King…and the book sounds AWESOME!!!!!! I'm all for emotional reads and everything that can make me cry hehehe Debbie! Looking forward to your book!!calbizzz_152(at)hotmail(dot)com

Hi Debbie,thank you for the chance at such a great giveaway. i love the cover, it's gorgeous and i wondered if you design your own book covers or have a lot of say in how they will look? i know some authors have little to no say in the way the book cover will look.

Decadent Publishing is great and we get a lot of say in the cover. We get to tell them what we want and then ask for a change once if there is something we want tweaked, but the cover artists over there are supurb!

Congrats on the book and thanks for a really interesting interview. I haven't read any of your work and would love to read this one. To be totally honest, I almost passed it by because it look like it will be a tearjerker, but then I read the blog and thought – well, even if it's a heavy premise (death of wife in childbirth), it looks too good to pass up.MJB